Re: It isn't about being cheaper for themselves
Donn,
While I appreciate the reply there are some errors in your assumptions in your comment. Very few WISP's have ever received ANY subsidy money. Fixed wireless technology is very capable of delivering broadband speeds in much of the country. The problem with the FCC changing the definition of broadband is not that WISP's can't keep up - it's that it rewards the same large phone companies that have already been paid multiple times to deliver broadband and have not done it. Imagine you invested a million dollars of your own money to build a WISP and the FCC comes along and says 'well, today we changed our mind and your company isn't doing a good enough job, so we are going to give your failed competitor more free money to compete with you'. That's exactly what is happening here. The subsidy whores are pushing to receive more money by creating a 'crisis' - which they can do by simply changing the definition of what Broadband is. The FCC gave away $11,000,000,000 in grant money to the iLEC's in 2014 and gave them 10 years to get to 10/1. And now they are back for more. First they need to get the pesky WISP's out of the way that are actually offering broadband though.